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—April 6, 2012 | Volume 15, Number 17
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Dear Colleague,


First, dear friends, we wish you a Happy Easter. The is the holiest time of the year and we pray it is fruitful for you and your family.

Our colleagues Susan Yoshihara and Doug Sylva wrote and edited an important book just out by Potomac Books about what happens to various powerful countries as their countries age and decline in population. Remember this was supposed to make everything more peaceful. Turns out it was wrong. Trouble brews for many countries including Russia, China, Japan, and the countries of Europe. The U.S. and India are in good shape. This book was discussed this week at the most important political science conference in America.

This week Stefano Gennarini reports on treaty body reform. Recall, these are the busy-bodies at the UN who tell governments they must liberalize their abortion laws and make homosexual marriage legal. There is a push to rein them in. We shall see what happens.

Spread the word.

Yours sincerely,

Austin Ruse
President

Fertility Decline May Unhinge Asian Security, Expert Panel Says

By C-FAM Staff

NEW YORK, April 6 (C-FAM) The global fertility freefall is about to cause geopolitical upheaval in Asia, a panel of experts said this week. The experts, all contributors to the new book Population Decline and the Remaking of Great Power Politics, spoke at the world’s largest gathering of international relations specialists meeting in San Diego, California.

“For years scholars have said that if fewer people were born, the world would be a safer place. It turns out the opposite is true,” Dr. Susan Yoshihara told conferees at the 53rd annual convention of the International Studies Association, which drew more than 5000 scholars from around the world. Yoshihara is director of the International Organizations Research Group at C-FAM and coeditor of the new book with C-FAM Senior Fellow Douglas Sylva. Read More

UN Treaty Bodies Want More Power-Governments Argue Back

By Stefano Gennarini, J.D.

NEW YORK, April 6 (C-FAM) The UN treaty body system may be on the verge of collapse due to a huge backlog of government reports and insufficient resources. In additional to backlog problems, the committees have been criticized for going beyond the mandate of the treaties they monitor and imposing their own interpretations, which include unrestricted abortion and homosexual rights.

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) held a meeting this week to hash out disagreements. On the one hand, treaty body members want more staff and time to deal with voluminous reports from governments. On the other hand, governments are annoyed at the overreach of most of the treaty bodies that take it upon themselves to reinterpret the content of treaties and to hector governments over issues not present in them in the first place! Read More
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Editor in Chief – Austin Ruse
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